Okres

'''Okres''' ([[Czech language|Czech]] and [[Slovak language|Slovak]] term meaning "County" in [[English language|English]]; from Old Slavic окрьсть - around) refers to administrative entities in the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]]. Compare to the {{lang-ru|окрестность}} - ''okrestnost'' and the {{lang-pl|kresy}}, meaning bordering area(s). The first counties, both in the Czech lands and Slovakia, developed from domains in 1850 by decision of the imperial government of [[Austrian Empire|Austria]] (they've also been called [[Processus (Kingdom of Hungary)|processus]] (''slúžnovský okres'') in Slovakia since the 1860s). The organisation and functions of the counties in started to diverge in the course of the following decades, and were finally unified only in 1918 with the creation of [[Czechoslovakia]]. After the [[dissolution of Czechoslovakia]] in 1993, the county system was taken over by the two current successor states. ==See also== *[[Counties of Slovakia]] (okres) *[[Districts of the Czech Republic|Counties of the Czech Republic]] (okres) *[[Krai]] *[[Kreis]] *[[Obec]] (subdivisions of an okres) *[[Okręg]] *[[Okrug]] *[[Powiat]] *[[Regions of Slovakia]] ([[kraj]]) *[[Regions of the Czech Republic]] (kraj) ==External links== * [http://www.czso.cz/lexikon/mos2003.nsf/index Map: location of every ''okres'' in the Czech Republic] {{Slavic terms for country subdivisions}} {{coord missing|Slovakia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Okres}} {{geo-term-stub}}